Banqueting House
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The Banqueting House, on Whitehall in the City of Westminster, central London, is the grandest and best-known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting houses, constructed for elaborate entert
Whitehall façade
The old Palace of Whitehall, showing the Banqueting House to the left
Inigo Jones' 1638 plan for a new palace at Whitehall, "one of the grandest architectural conceptions of the renaissance in England"; the Banqueting House is incorporated to the near left of the central courtyard (for the most part, Jones's plan was ultimately never executed)
A contemporaneous German print showing the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House, which is inaccurately depicted
Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, was publicly executed on 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the culmination of political and militar
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…funds and the tensions that eventually led to the Civil War intervened and the plans were permanently shelved. The Second English Civil War resulted in Charles I's own execution outside Banqueting House following the defeat of Royalist forces. In January 1698, the Tudor Palace was razed by fire that raged for 17 hours. All that…
A contemporary German print of the execution of Charles I outside the Banqueting House. Based on the earliest European depiction of the execution.
A Lively Representation of the Manner how his late Majesty was Beheaded upon the Scaffold, a Restoration print of Charles making his speech upon the scaffold.
The title page of The Confession of Richard Brandon, a 1649 pamphlet claiming to reveal Richard Brandon as Charles I's executioner.
Anonymous Dutch painting of the execution of Charles I, 1649. While depictions of the execution were suppressed in England, European depictions like this were produced, emphasising the shock of the crowd with fainting women and bloodied streets.